How to Use lenticular in a Sentence

lenticular

adjective
  • But first, this is what's known as a lee-wave lenticular cloud.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2013
  • There’s a lenticular poster that also acts as one of the aforementioned layers.
    — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Compared to their lenticular prints, the brothers’ works in glass are mere afterthoughts.
    — Michael Upchurch, The Seattle Times, 8 Aug. 2017
  • One of the least common cloud types, lenticular clouds form when mountains force air currents to travel in wave-like patterns.
    — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
  • Her lenticular prints and outerwear speak to her heritage in an expressive way.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 14 Nov. 2023
  • That was enough time to track Earth’s rotation, which makes stars appear as streaks of light even as the volcano’s lenticular crown stays put.
    — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
  • If the air temperature cools enough to condense the water vapor in it, a lenticular cloud may appear.
    — Kathryn Prociv, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2017
  • The vinyl editions of the album did not include randomized items, but were packaged with a lenticular postcard, poster and slipmat.
    — Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 22 Mar. 2023
  • This works because the plastic coating consists of a series of stripes, creating what are called lenticular lenses.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Sixty per cent, so far, were in favor of an invisibility cape made from lenticular lenses.
    — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • To the southwest, a huge spaceship-like lenticular cloud loomed over the Trinity Divide.
    — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The lenticular lens works with a pair of eye-tracking cameras to render real-time images for each eye that adjust with your physical movements.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Fittingly lenticular clouds sometimes get compared to, or even mistaken for, flying saucers.
    — Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 17 May 2024
  • On the left, the disc-like lenticular galaxy UGC 8603 is more defined.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 16 Feb. 2023
  • As Cappucci explains, lenticular clouds are common around mountains that force incoming air to rise.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2020
  • This may actually track, since astronomers still aren’t entirely certain how lenticular galaxies form in the first place.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Otherworldly looking lenticular clouds resemble stacks of giant disks rising in the sky.
    — Catherine Zuckerman, National Geographic, 24 Apr. 2019
  • To learn more about altocumulus standing lenticular clouds, visit the NWS page here.
    — Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 May 2021
  • The Getty Center hovers at a hilltop over the 405 Freeway like a lenticular cloud.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Remember, lenticular clouds almost exclusively are near large mountain ranges, where gravity waves result from air rushing up and over steep terrain.
    — Kathryn Prociv, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Instead of including a real screen, Lego opted to include a lenticular replacement to create the illusion of a game being played.
    — PC Magazine, 2 Oct. 2025
  • When exploring things like lenticular material, it’s always made from PVC.
    — Astrid Kayembe, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Typically, pieces of wood that have been cut to resemble ax blades now serve as flat supports for everything from actual antique watches and keys to lenticular images of planets and stars.
    — Mike Guiliano, Columbia Flier, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The Cheech’s showpiece is the 26-foot-tall lenticular installation in the lobby, which was commissioned from the de la Torre brothers.
    — New York Times, 14 June 2022
  • On top of the lenticular lens is a 2D/3D liquid-crystal switching layer, which is topped with a glass front panel with an anti-reflective coating.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Rather than a place to screen epic stories modeled on theater, the planetarium was designed to display the triumph of lenticular scientific astronomy to the public.
    — Caroline A. Jones, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2025
  • There is a lenticular patch on the tongue that has an eye that closes and opens and with the MB Swoosh Logo; and our print, Run like no one is watching, appears on the shoe laces.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Visitors to the art exhibit will experience a mix of holograms, 3D prints, lenticular characters and an illusion made by colored lights.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 21 July 2021
  • Galaxies that are not spiral, lenticular, or elliptical are called irregular galaxies.
    — National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
  • Besides all this, there is an external lenticular display called EyeSight that enables other people to see a digital representation of the user’s eyes when the user is looking at the real world.
    — Anshel Sag, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024

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